According to Lupe, Mike Brown’s death “was the product of a system that can be changed” and that protests are only short term solutions. A long term solution proposed by the 1st & 15th MC was for the people protesting in Ferguson to join the same police departments they are protesting against:

1 of 3 The tragic death of Mike Brown was the product of a system that can be changed. Protests & activism satisfy passions for the moment

Lupe is no stranger to societal critiques on public forums. During a keynote speech at Mass Black Male Graduation and Transition to Manhood ceremony, he informed students whom recently graduated from high school they “spent the last 12 years receiving one of the worst educations on Earth.”